Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Takes the Puppy Metaphor Too Far
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I loved that little OCD cleaner bot MO in WALL-E. I also love dogs. But somehow, combining the two just ends up…weird.
I’m talking about the “Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner,” whose name is actually a bit misleading. Puppy Robotic is composed of several parts: A “mother dog” base — complete with “docking tits” (seriously!) — and four mini-Roomba style “puppy” cleaners with “docking mouths” (how else would they suckle power from their mother unit?).
Each puppy has a rolling brush and suction hole for cleaning, and a display screen that relays whether it’s in cleaning mode (a smiley face), entertainment mode (a music note), or feeding mode (what appears to be a nipple). The antenna is appropriately implemented as a tail.
From the images, it also looks like you can hook a remote control on your actual dog’s collar so that the cleaner pups trail it, sweeping up the animal’s muddy footprints as it trots along.
There’s a lot of animal-inspired robotics out there: robot smartbirds, baby robo dinos and sneaky robot snakes, to name a few. The Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner appears to be the first to utilize a “docking tit” though, as far as I’m aware.
The Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is thankfully only a concept.
Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner [Yanko Design]
Fuente: Gadget Lab
